Decoder

Like their more prevalent alias Technical Itch, the task of Darren Beale and Mark Caro as Decoder dresses the industry leading of progressive drum’n’bass, incorporating the moodier components of jump-up and techstep having a nod toward drum-twisting junglists such as for example Dom & Roland as well as the Cent Black label. Even though duo possess deepest origins in the past due-’80s hardcore breakbeat picture, their materials both aside and together offers tended toward the darkside, merging thick, unsettling atmospherics with complicated, bruising drum patterns and deep sub-bass groans. Furthermore to Decoder and Complex Itch (the second option via their Bristol-based Technology Itch recording studio room), Caro and Beale also have documented as Kutta (for Tough Shade), T.We.C. (for Back again 2 Essentials), and Alpha Proxima (for Au Toi). The pair’s first tracks emerged toward the top end from the U.K. hardcore picture; both Beale and Caro had been observed DJs, with Beale’s documented are Orca increasing his renown. Introduced with a shared friend, they released their initial record jointly as Plasmic Lifestyle on Bizzy B’s Human brain Information, and by the first ’90s, were leaving the conventions of hardcore, pursuing breakbeat in to the much less static realms of darkside and hardstep jungle. Still just a part-time cooperation, the pair’s relationship deepened after Omni Trio’s Rob Haigh noticed a Technology Itch monitor on Kenny Ken’s Kiss FM present, resulting in their putting your signature on with Haigh’s home-based Shifting Darkness in 1996. The set produced several singles as Techie Itch for the label that same season, with ratings of paths as Decoder and T.We.C. continuing to seem independently and other brands, marking the set among the even more prolific (and significantly important) of the brand new crop. A 1998 Decoder full-length was their initial LP from the gate, though Technology Itch’s Diagnostics implemented one year down the road Moving Shadow.